army1987 comments on Hedonic vs Preference Utilitarianism in the Context of Wireheading - Less Wrong

6 Post author: jkaufman 29 June 2012 01:50PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 29 June 2012 10:20:37PM 4 points [-]

Yvain points out that wireheading experiments may have been stimulating desire instead pleasure. This would mean you'd really want to get more stimulation but aren't actually enjoying it.

Huh, exactly what randomly browsing the Web when I'm tired does to me.